Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:00:54 +0530 From: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [current tinderbox] failure on ...all... Message-ID: <84dead72050610053064895de4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <863brqy41j.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <20050609234619.AD1F67306E@freebsd-current.sentex.ca> <p0621025fbeceac0673f8@128.113.24.47> <84dead720506091950779d1661@mail.gmail.com> <86oeae3d8f.fsf@xps.des.no> <84dead72050610001675a32c19@mail.gmail.com> <863brq3bbz.fsf@xps.des.no> <84dead7205061001534b9385b3@mail.gmail.com> <863brqy41j.fsf@xps.des.no>
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On 6/10/05, "des" =3D=3D "Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no>" wrote: des> Of course, but you wouldn't be able to run an old userland=20 des> on a new kernel. I thought that was (much of) the point of=20 des> separating MI from MD. In the current design the first thing userland has to do is inform the kernel module about its idea of what the ABI version is. The=20 kernel module can then choose to either support it or return=20 EPROGMISMATCH. If it decides to support it, it will need to=20 respect structure sizes corresponding to $CLIENTVERSION. --=20 FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
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